Now that i have it, i don't know how to go about it. Was thinking of making a UGM or "Ultimate Gaming Machine". Need a powered USB hub to power up the pi & the retrodes then a smallish monitor or screen to play on. Will have to start compiling a list of OSes and Linux emulators to use them with. Will need get some Snes controllers too.

Has anybody got any suggestions on where to get good parts in UK but if not, what else could i do with trio?

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Post by: JonY on 10/Jul/2012 08:07:11 PM

Hot sure on the HID support in Linux, so if that doesn't work, you could do this: http://hackaday.com/2012/07/05/interfacing-snes-controllers-with-your-raspberry-pi/ (http://"http://hackaday.com/2012/07/05/interfacing-snes-controllers-with-your-raspberry-pi/")

Although thinking about it, you could just set the Retrode keyboard mode...

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Post by: ríomhaire on 15/Jul/2012 02:01:04 PM

Just out of curiosity, is the Raspberry Pi powerful enough to run XBMC with no hiccups?

Title: Re: A Raspberry Pi and Two retrodes walked into a bar...
Post by: Steeds on 15/Jul/2012 07:26:34 PM

Just out of curiosity, is the Raspberry Pi powerful enough to run XBMC with no hiccups?

Haven't tried this set up yet but the raspberry pi has its own port call Raspbmc (http://www.raspbmc.com).The only requirement other than a Raspberry pi is a class 6 8Gb SD card. Am hoping to use this rather than Debian for the main system.

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Post by: JonY on 15/Jul/2012 09:15:31 PM

Just out of curiosity, is the Raspberry Pi powerful enough to run XBMC with no hiccups?

As well as Raspbmc, there is OpenELEC (http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Building_and_Installing_OpenELEC_for_Raspberry_Pi). I have tried both, and had more luck with OpenELEC. If you look around, you can find precompiled SD card images (http://sources.openelec.tv/tmp/image/openelec-rpi/) rather than building your own.

Edit: Bad links, now sorted, sorry!

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Post by: matt on 16/Jul/2012 09:16:36 AM

@JonY all your external links are badly formed. Please check them

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Post by: JonY on 16/Jul/2012 09:25:27 AM

Oops, fixed them.

Title: Re: A Raspberry Pi and Two retrodes walked into a bar...
Post by: ríomhaire on 17/Jul/2012 12:32:44 PM

Thanks guys. That's really cool. Seems like a really good way to set up a modern media centre. May have to add it to my "to buy" list.

Title: Re: A Raspberry Pi and Two retrodes walked into a bar...
Post by: Steeds on 17/Jul/2012 04:53:02 PM

It seems the Raspberry Pi might have a challenger in the form of the "Gooseberry (http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/)" Pics:(http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/DSCF2714.jpg)(http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/DSCF2716.jpg)(http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DSCF2650.jpg)

Powered USB hub to connect power hungry peripherals such if required such as External Hard drives

Micro USB to USB to connect board to computer for flashing the on board Nand flash

GooseBerry Board vs Raspberry Pi

The Gooseberry board is roughly 3 x more powerful in processing power than the Pi

The Gooseberry board has a newer arm architecture meaning it is compatible with newer software such as Ubuntu which the Pi can not run

The Gooseberry board has double the ram of the Pi (512mb)

The board does not have a Lan port, although Wifi is present

The board does not have analogue video and so can not connect to old TV’s

Only a limited OS (android) is supported as of yet fully, the board however is capable of running other Os’s such as Ubuntu (currently without graphics acceleration). Premade images for Ubuntu are now available and videos of the board running ubuntu and other linux flavours shall be uploaded.

Hmmm. First time I've heard about that. Seems to be a fair bit bigger than the RasPi -- a standard assembly that would otherwise end up in China tablets. What confuses me is that those folks don't know the slightest bit about their own product (does it have GPIO pins?) since it is not their own design. Even funnier, they don't have the schematics for it! (http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/?page_id=108) I doubt that this will be adopted by as substantial a community as the RasPi, with a serious dedicated linux distro and all that.

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Post by: Steeds on 30/Jul/2012 03:52:37 PM

Hmmm. First time I've heard about that. Seems to be a fair bit bigger than the RasPi -- a standard assembly that would otherwise end up in China tablets. What confuses me is that those folks don't know the slightest bit about their own product (does it have GPIO pins?) since it is not their own design. Even funnier, they don't have the schematics for it! (http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/?page_id=108) I doubt that this will be adopted by as substantial a community as the RasPi, with a serious dedicated linux distro and all that.

After reading a thread on the website (http://p11-preview.runhosting.com/gooseberryboard.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22&sid=bc496c2f01e3b03d89fe66527d283f98), i'm gonna have to agree. My theory is that someone bought a job load of motherboards and tried to palm them off as "upgraded" raspberry pi's.